Huh. I always _hated_ that page turning animation, because it obscured the content and made it difficult to quickly swipe back and forth.
It was also slow, interrupting my reading flow. When I'm reading something exciting, I always start reading at a fast pace, and the interruption in reading while I turn each page feels like a video constantly stopping to buffer.
Both of these factors apply to physical books to some extent, but much less so – mainly because you can fit much more text on a book page than on a phone screen, and also because you can turn a physical page quite fast.
Slow page turns are also the reason I don't like ePaper readers. In that case it's not an animation slowing things down, but the ePaper refresh time.
Anyway, this is why I used to use the iOS Kindle app instead of Apple Books (née iBooks) – because the Kindle app uses a simple horizontal sliding animation (similar to Libby in the article) that is faster and doesn't obscure content. However, Apple Books eventually added a mode that removes pages altogether in favor of a continuous vertical scroll, which I now use.
I just briefly tried Apple Books' new page turning animation, and I definitely prefer it, though it's still a bit slow and I still prefer the vertical scroll. Perhaps the change was made with users like me in mind.
Which is not to say I'm happy with the old animation being taken away from users who liked it! I appreciate that my sensitivity to interruptions is idiosyncratic, and the old animation certainly had superior aesthetics. Ideally it would be a setting.
I also hate page turning animations. Maybe it's my dumb brain but it's super distracting and I never could learn to ignore it. I finally found an e-reader app that let me disable all animations and just immediately cuts to the new page. When I'm reading and I hit the end of the page, by the time my eye has moved back to the top of the screen the new page is there and if I time my tap correctly I don't even see the page change. It's the only way for me to read now.
This. So much this. I also use scrolling mode for everything, that page turn animation was slow af and distracted me no end. It was beautiful, no doubt, but just not bearable enough when you need an immersive experience in a book.
As an avid user of Books, page turn animation is distracting. And it seems nobody is talking about the huge bug fix of bookmarks and last read sync. Previous OS this was nowhere to be found and was so buggy.
It was also slow, interrupting my reading flow. When I'm reading something exciting, I always start reading at a fast pace, and the interruption in reading while I turn each page feels like a video constantly stopping to buffer.
Both of these factors apply to physical books to some extent, but much less so – mainly because you can fit much more text on a book page than on a phone screen, and also because you can turn a physical page quite fast.
Slow page turns are also the reason I don't like ePaper readers. In that case it's not an animation slowing things down, but the ePaper refresh time.
Anyway, this is why I used to use the iOS Kindle app instead of Apple Books (née iBooks) – because the Kindle app uses a simple horizontal sliding animation (similar to Libby in the article) that is faster and doesn't obscure content. However, Apple Books eventually added a mode that removes pages altogether in favor of a continuous vertical scroll, which I now use.
I just briefly tried Apple Books' new page turning animation, and I definitely prefer it, though it's still a bit slow and I still prefer the vertical scroll. Perhaps the change was made with users like me in mind.
Which is not to say I'm happy with the old animation being taken away from users who liked it! I appreciate that my sensitivity to interruptions is idiosyncratic, and the old animation certainly had superior aesthetics. Ideally it would be a setting.